EN Thank you all for your kind words and congratulations on our wedding. You made us very happy.
Today I'm showing you the dress I made for our wedding-eve party. For this thick cotton lace fabric I drafted a simple pattern with bust- and back-darts and an A-line. I especially love the retro 60's vibe of the dress (always reminds me of my grandmother).
We are curretly travelling around, visiting the family and we also made a stopover in Berlin, where I found beautiful fabrics for fall. I can't wait to come home and start my fall sewing.
I hope you have a great week so far.

ENFinally after a long time of planning and sewing, our wedding day came last weekend and my photographer Jan and I said 'Yes' to each other. We have tons of pictures so I needed some time to go through all of them, that's why my "Wedding Wednesday" post is a bit late this week.

As I said before I made my weddingdress completely on my own and beside some tittles I'm very happy with the result. But I must confess: It was really not easy to make the dress all on my own and I had some pressure moments: Will I look good? Was my pattern drafting right? How will the fabric behave during the day? Will the dress look good on our wedding pictures? But all the thinkung is over and I think all went well! :)

Unfortunately the weather was changeful (kind of April weather) on our weddingday and I got a little wet during the day. But I was told that brings luck to the bridal pair! ;)

For all that, we had a wonderful and memorable day with our closest family members and some close friends.

Next up for us is a small honeymoon to the Spreewald (south of Berlin) and a couple of days in Berlin (a real honeymoon is planned too) and I'll share pictures (and new sewing projects) with you, too.

Next time on Wedding Wednesday I'll show you the lace dress, I made for the wedding-eve party.

Thank you very much for all your kind words and congratulations on instagram and facebook. You made us very happy.

ENA few weeks ago I talked about the La Maison Victor Top Bree and this time I want to show you the shorts 'Golda' from the same pattern issue July/August 2016 (the magazine is available in German, French and Dutch). While I flipped through the pages of this issue, I instantly stopped at the shorts pattern called 'Golda' (I mean, how amazing is this golden fabric???). Since I was in the need for an easy shorts for the hot days this summer, I decided to give this pattern a go.

As I mentioned before with my LMV Top Bree, the patterns are generous and I'm sure I could have gone one size down (i.g. are the legs a bit wide). All in all I'm very happy with the shorts, they fit in the back and the waist and are very comfortable.

Last weekend we visited my parents near Frankfurt and the shorts were perfect for the hot day, especially after a really delicious barbecue.

Also our wedding day is coming closer and we have a lot to do before the big day. So I couldn't manage to write another 'Wedding Wednesday' post this week, but you get an impression of my DIY wedding dress (at least an idea of the bodice) below.

I'm wishing you a great rest of the week.

Sincerely,

StefThank you La Maison Victor for partnering on this post. The opinions in the text are my own.

10. August 2016

ENLast week I showed you some sketches of wedding-dress shapes/patterns I really liked. I mentioned too, that my absolute favourite is the one with the high collar around the neck (tulip collar?). Since the v-neck on this dress was too deep for my taste, I was thinking about how I could make my very own version of such a dress.

As I said last week: I really couldn't find a matching pattern so I had to draft my own. I said it before, I sew for 6 years now and I have learned all I know about sewing by myself. So the pattern had to be managable for me, not a couture-seamstress.

Such as on the dress that inspired my wedding dress, I wanted a pattern with princess seams. I think these seams support the vertical v-neck line (as you might seen in the sketches above).

I couldn't find a pattern, so I drafted the princess-seams on my own. For the tulip collar (?) I hab some kind of guideline: I analysed the collar of this Burda style wedding-dress and drafted one for my pattern. If you take a closer look to the pictures of the Burda style dress, you can see creases around the collarbone and I didn't like these. So I had to draft my own collar (pictures of my collar next week here).

I wasn't able to sketch my lace fabric properly, but you get an impression of it on the picture below.Have a great rest of the (work-)week.Sincerely,

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